UK estate agents collapses into liquidation with viewings cancelled

A UK estate agents has collapsed into liquidation with all viewings cancelled.

The award-winning Wallers Estate Agents is listed as permanently closed on Google and is in the process of being liquidated, Companies House accounts reveal.

Wallers Estate Agents Limited, based in Oxford with an office in Swindon too, fell into liquidation late last year.

But in April, the liquidators appointed Nicholas Cusack and Paul Bailey, of Brighton-based BABR, were removed by court order.

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Now a new liquidator has been appointed – Kirren Keegan of the same company BARB.

Statement of affairs submitted to Companies House on September 8 reveal Wallers Estate Agents Ltd has debts of £59,826 owed to creditors.

Most of this is to the bank: NatWest is owed £31,567 for a Bounce Back loan, £1,000 for a business card along with a further £19,996.

HMRC is also owed £59.94 in PAYE and CF&L, a leasing specialist in Southend, Essex, is owed £7,202.

What’s more, the Property Ombudsman – which Wallers was a member of – confirmed the registration ceased in August 2024.

The Property Ombudsman is an independent and impartial dispute resolution service for consumers and property businesses.

Wallers’ website, which has now been shut down, said staff who worked there tried to keep things “simple and straightforward”.

Set up by Rowan Waller in 2014, the business pitched itself on its website as “the antidote to what people always see as your typical estate agency”.